Squeak's role in a larger world?
John Tobler
squeakie at visto.com
Fri Oct 1 18:34:43 UTC 1999
Tim Rowledge wrote:
>> AFAIK, Squeak is not yet embeddable.
> Not in the sense of being able to put an image
> in rom and run out of rom, no.
This usage of "embeddable" has nothing to do with "embedded
systems" and is not a hardware-related issue. It has,
rather, to do with easily using one language from within
another.
For example, Python is embeddable because you can
relatively seamlessly invoke a Python interpreter from
within another language. This makes it easy, for example,
to write Python scripts and have them run from within a
C/C++ program. If I remember correctly, a complete Python
interpreter is provided in a shared library (dll, for
Windows) along with the appropriate API hooks to allow it
to be invoked from within another language system.
In context, then, Squeak would be embeddable if a mechanism
existed such that you could (easily) execute Squeak-
compliant Smalltalk code from within a program in another
language.
/John
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